And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.